Legion of Substitute Heroes

Original Team

This team is like the Legion of Super-Heroes, just less effective.

Silver Age
The team was founded by 5 Legion of Super-Hero member rejects: Polar Boy (has cold manipulation and is the unofficial leader of the "subs"), Night Girl (has near-Superman-level strength, when not exposed to sun light), Stone Boy (turns into stone, but cannot move in this form), Fire Boy (breathes fire like a dragon) and Chlorophyll Kid (can make plants grow). They were "pinch hit" team for the Legion of Super-Heroes. They were fairly affective for a time. But thanks to writer Keith Griffin, they became comically ineffective. Several more Legion of Super-Hero rejects joined: Antenna Lad (can "tune" into any broadcast (past, present or future), usually at random), Color Kid (controls colors), Double-Header (has two heads), Infectious Lass (generates illnesses) and Porcupine Pete (shoot quills, has bad aim through). The team disbanded when Polar Boy joined the Legion of Super-Heroes. In the "Five Year Gap", Cosmic Boy, Bouncing Boy, Duo Damsel, Night Girl, Comet Queen and the new Karate Kid (no relation to the movie) formed a new version of the "Subs". In Legion of Super-Heroes vol.4, Fire Lad, Stone Boy, Chlorophyll Kid, Color Kid, Porcupine Pete, Grinn and Ron-Karr are members of the "Subs".

Threeboot

In the Legion of Super-Heroes 2004 revamp, several members of the Legion of Substitute Heroes appears, but are never referred to as such.

Post-Infinite Crisis

This version members were Infectious Lass, Color Kid, Double-Header, Night Girl, Polar Boy, Stone Boy and Rainbow Girl (wields the emotional spectrum). They helped the Legion of Super-Heroes defeat the evil alien-hating "Justice" League of Earth. After the JLE's defeat, the "subs" took over their satellite base. It's revealed that the reason why most of them were rejected was because Saturn Girl did subtle mind-readings of them and discover that either they didn't have enough control over them or they were simply too useless.

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion_of_Substitute_Heroes

Fatman the Human Flying Saucer

It's a Frisbee! No, It's a flying saucer! NO! It's Fatman the Human Flying Saucer!

Publication History

His double-size comic last three whole bi-monthly issues!

Fictional History

Van Cawford was a good-natured hobbyist that saved a flying saucer. Grateful, the aliens turned him into a human-alien hybrid that had the power to turn into a flying saucer. He decided to become a superhero. In his adventures, he gained allies, like Tinman (a skinny teen magically encased in metal), and enemies, like Anti-Man (an underwater monster that wanted to destroy all humans).
References:

http://www.toonopedia.com/fatman.htm

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Xal-Kor the Human Cat

History
Xal-Kor was from the 4th dimension. He claimed his race was a group of cats that went into "hyper-evolution" (giving them human-like appearance and level-intelligence). Xal went to Earth to stop the "Rat people" known as "Rodentites" (who had similar powers as him) from conquering the Earth. Using his shape shifting, he took a job as a reporter named Colin Chambers (possibly a reference to Clark Kent). His Lois Lane-like secretary, Ann Rhoden, was really one of the Rodentites, but he didn't know this nor did she know that he was really Xal-Kor. He would often battle the Rodentites and usually acted kinda ruthless towards them (in his first appearance he killed two of them). But, he couldn't expose them because it would incite panic. He never actually completely stopped their plan (in every story there would be like a dozen left alive).
Powers and Abilities

Xal-Kor can shape shift into a human or a cat. It was revealed he needs to turn into his true form, before turning from cat to human (or vise versa). He has limited telepathic abilities towards cats. He is very strong and agile, but it's unclear if it's to the superhuman level.
References:
The Best of Star Studded Comics
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Predecessors Iron Man

Gigantor (One of Iron Man's more notable predecessors)

You think Iron Man was really original, don't you? Well, you're wrong. Iron Man had similar predecessor.

The first "Iron Man" was a real person: Lou Gehrig. He worked for the Ironman Batteries and was called Iron Horse, because he never got hurt in a baseball game. Illness made him too weak to play.

The second "Iron Man" was a Japanese cartoon character, who was known as Gigantor. He was originally called "Tetsujin" ("Iron Man"). He kinda looked like the original Iron Man.

Iron Man's next predecessor was Rocketman. He was a serial hero with an atomic-powered jet pack and a helmet that looks likes the original Iron Man's.

Stan Lee created a robot that was kinda a prototype-Iron Man that appeared in I Became A Human Robot!

Before the appearance of Stan Lee's Iron Man, there was a story called Man of Iron, which had the similar "iron lettering" Iron Man's logo.

References:

http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/422/

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Firebreather

Character Overview

Duncan Rosenblatt (full name is Duncan Xeres Absalom Wu Fan Cassius Draco Draconus Quetzelcoatl Gondwana Mjarl Khan Belloc-Rosenblatt Jr.) is a teenager with average teenage problems and one not so average problem: he the son a divorced "normal" human mother, who wants him to live a normal life; and a 300-foot dragon, who wants him to conquer the world and become king of monster. Duncan and his mom move a lot.

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Duncan was having his first day another school, but both the principal and a bully named Troy are picking on him. To make this worst, his father was putting him through brutish training. Troy decides set up Rosenblatt by hiding a gun, this causes Duncan to question if should be in human society. When he gets home, he discovers that a monster destroyed his house and kidnapped his mom. He tracks the monster to Monster Island and burned it with his flame, but kept it alive. Belloc (his dad) comes and attacks the monster. Duncan figured out that his dad set this up to test him! He then threatens his father to kill him if he endanger his mother again. As Duncan leaves, Belloc says "That's my boy".

Firebreather: The Iron Saint (One Shot)

Duncan and his class are in London and hear about a suit of armor (the "Iron Saint"), created to kill monster. Duncan stays behind and the suit seemly comes to life! Actually, Mr. M (the guide) was wearing it and wanted to kill Duncan (his dad destroyed Mr. M's home), but the suit is ineffective, due to it cannot harms humans or the suit will be destoryed and Duncan is half one.

Powers and Abilities

Duncan has superhuman strength and durability. Like any dragon, Duncan can fly and (of course) breathe fire.

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebreather

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Spectre

Golden Age Version

Jim Corrigan was cop that was murdered. But, his spirit was denied entrance into the afterlife. He returned to Earth as a undead being and was assigned to be a superhero by "The Voice" (God?). As the Spectre, he was seeking bloody vengeance against Corrigan's murders. He founded the Justice Society of America.

Silver Age Version

This version was some what rewritten from his Golden Age counterpart. He was still an avenging spirit, but he was also nearly omnipotence.

Bronze Age Version

Again, the Spectre was some what rewritten. Here, he used his power in gruesome ways, giving "poetic-justice" to criminals: melting him like wax, turning them to glass and then shoving off a cliff and etc. Many fans were unease by this version of the Spectre, so a reporter called Earl Crawford (who also found the Spectre disturbing) was introduced. He fought in the Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Modern Age Version

This version had both elements of an avenging spirit and a brutal police man. It's revealed the Spectre wasn't actually Jim, but a fallen angel. He possessed Hal Jordon's dead body to stop the fear-entity Parallax. In the Day of Vengeance storyline, he was tricked into causing havoc among magic-users. Later, the Spectre got a new host (he left the Hal Jordon body): Crispus Allen. In Blackest Night, a Black Lantern ring turned Crispus into a zombie (with the Spectre still in it!), but Hal Jordon (somehow alive) saved him.

Powers and Abilities

The Spectre can do almost anything, when he has a host. However, he's venerable to strong magic and needs a host.

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(comics)

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http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Aztar_(New_Earth)

White Martians

Despite being the "sister" race of the Green Martians, the two are polar opposites.

History

Eons ago, the White Martians savagely tried to take over the Earth. But, their peaceful counterparts, the Green Martians, trapped them in the Still Zone (Phantom Zone), for the choas they caused on Earth. Eons later, the White Martians escaped. Eight of their Martian leaders posed as superheroes, calling themselves the "Hyperclan". But, the Justice League figured out their plans and stopped them. Despite that their memories were erased and were turned into "humans", the Hyperclan tried to cause havoc, but the JLA stopped them and trapped them in the Still Zone.

Powers and Abilities

All the White Martians have flight, super strength, telepathy and the force-blasting "Martian Vision". They can also shape-shift. Some White Martians possesses unique abilities not possessed by the rest of the race. Like Green Martians, exposure to fire removes their powers.

References:

The DC Comic Encyclopedia

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